page_title: The Amazing Race 22
section_title: Development and filming
hierarchical_section_title: The Amazing Race 22 / Production / Development and filming
caption_attribution_description: English: An aerial view of Griffith Observatory
context_page_description: The Amazing Race 22 is the twenty-second installment of the American reality television show The Amazing Race. It featured eleven teams of two, each with a pre-existing relationship, in a race around the world.
  The season premiered on February 17, 2013, at 8:00 p.m. EST/PST on CBS in the United States and the CTV Television Network in Canada, with the two-hour season finale broadcast on May 5, 2013.
  Professional hockey players and brothers Jonathan "Bates" and Anthony Battaglia were the winners of The Amazing Race 22.
context_section_description: This season was broadcast in the mid-season of the 2012–13 TV schedule. In an interview with TV Guide, Keoghan revealed that the Double Your Money prize introduced in the previous season would not be included in Season 22. Instead, the twist this season was that the winners of the first Leg were awarded two Express Passes: one for themselves and another that had to be given to another team before the end of Leg 4.
  The route spanned 30,000 miles (48,000 km) through ten countries in five different continents. This season was the first time The Amazing Race visited the  overseas country of French Polynesia, where teams skydived above the island of Bora Bora. Other tasks and travel destinations included "Shemozzle racing" in New Zealand, hunting scorpions with bushmen in Botswana, and climbing the north face of the Eiger in Switzerland. This season also featured a first time visit to the constituent country of Northern Ireland.
  This season marked the first time that a team had been eliminated while still in possession of the Express Pass as well as the first time a team was subject to two separate U-Turns during the Race.
  Contestant Dave O'Leary tore his Achilles tendon near the end of Leg 2. Though he and his son, Connor, continued to race for another two legs with Dave being forced to use a medical boot, crutches, and a wheelchair while in airports, they elected to withdraw from the competition at the start of Leg 5 after Dave was advised by his physician to have surgery on his ankle within two weeks of the original injury. Though Dave and Connor traveled to Hanoi, Vietnam, with the remaining teams, they did not participate in any tasks in that leg. Instead, after arriving in Hanoi, they proceeded directly to the Pit Stop to be formally eliminated. Dave returned to the United States in time to have the surgery to repair the tendon the day before filming of the Race was completed and be at the Finish Line. He was able to return to compete in The Amazing Race 24 a year later with his son Connor. 
  Previous editions of the program, as well as in the international counterparts, in order to avoid confusion with the flag of the former independent state of South Vietnam, changed the route markers into solid yellow or yellow and white flags. In this season, the clue box directly after the U-Turn in Hanoi held the standard red and yellow flag. Subsequent seasons including Season 29 and Season 31 have since used the standard red and yellow flag.
  The Leg 5 episode in Hanoi sparked ire among some conservative media analysts and viewers for the tasks involving a performance of a communist propaganda song and the brief visit to a B-52 bomber that was shot down by North Vietnamese forces during the Vietnam War and turned into a memorial for communist Vietnam's victory. Complaints came in from sources such as the national commanders of the American Legion and VFW, the Media Research Center's Culture and Media Institute, and liberal Democrat strategist and Fox News Channel pundit Bob Beckel also spoke of their disgust at the program's choices. Yahoo! TV later reported on comments from viewers found on Twitter whose complaints ranged from threatening to no longer watch the series or statements that the episode was "weird" or "disrespectful to Americans killed [in Vietnam]". Prior to the start of the episode for Leg 6, CBS aired an apology, noting that portions of the previous episode were insensitive to United States Armed Forces veterans. The message, read by host Phil Keoghan, stated, "We want to apologize to veterans - particularly those who served in Vietnam - as well as to their families and any viewers who were offended by the broadcast. All of us here have the most profound respect for the men and women who fight for our country."
  During Leg 7, Max and Jennifer were both issued speeding tickets by the Botswana Police Service after going through a speed trap. Botswanan law requires that tickets be paid before the end of the day, so both teams stopped racing in order to pay the fines before moving on. Unlike previous seasons where racer
caption: Los Angeles's Griffith Observatory was the Starting Line for the 22nd Amazing Race.
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